Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel-ftreet; BECKET and MDCCLXXI. CHA P. XXXVII. THE JAMES II. HE duke of York, who fucceeded his A. D. 1685. brother by the title of king James the second, had been bred a papift by his mother, and was ftrongly bigotted to his principles. It is the property of that religion almost ever to contract the sphere of the understanding ; and until people are in fome measure difengaged from its prejudices, it is impoffible to lay a juft VOL. IV. claim B |